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From: nate@blit.engr.sgi.com (Nate Tuck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 19 Mar 1997 19:34:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net>,
Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote:
>    * 'real time' extensions in access and data layout.  Useful for video
>      editing, not useful for anything else.

Not to pick nits, but there is more diversity to the world than video
editing and text newsfeeds.  Anybody who has some sort of latency
requirements is a potential beneficiary.  Video is one of many, most
text newsfeeds aren't.

nate